Elizabeth I famous quotes

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
-- Elizabeth I

#Kings #Reality #Crowns

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
-- Elizabeth I

#Silence #Secret

All my possessions for a moment of time.
-- Elizabeth I

#Time #Moments #Last Words

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
-- Elizabeth I

#Love #Queens #Husband

I will have but one mistress and no master
-- Elizabeth I

#Mistress #Masters

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
-- Elizabeth I

#Jesus #Christ #Disputes

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
-- Elizabeth I

#Marriage #Queens #Mother And Daughter

Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
-- Elizabeth I

#Kings #Kindness #Long

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
-- Elizabeth I

#Hype #Deception #Praying

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
-- Elizabeth I

#Kings #Women #Heart

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
-- Elizabeth I

#Strong Women #Sex #Rocks

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
-- Elizabeth I

#Money #Shining #Ignorant

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
-- Elizabeth I

#Lions #Beast #Destruction

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
-- Elizabeth I

#Stones #Recoil #Throwers

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.
-- Elizabeth I

If we still advise we shall never do.
-- Elizabeth I

#Advise #Stills

A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.
-- Elizabeth I

#Beer #Perfect #Meals

And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.
-- Elizabeth I

#Leadership #Sports #Kings

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst
-- Elizabeth I

#Worst

I observe and remain silent.
-- Elizabeth I

#Silent #Diplomacy

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
-- Elizabeth I

#Witty #Anger #Men

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
-- Elizabeth I

#Husband #Kingdoms #England

I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart
-- Elizabeth I

#Heart #Lions #May

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
-- Elizabeth I

#Queens #Being Single #Dignity

The past cannot be cured.
-- Elizabeth I

#Past

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
-- Elizabeth I

#Suffering #Crowns #Reputation

Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.
-- Elizabeth I

#Loyalty #Peace #Faithful

I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
-- Elizabeth I

#Hate #Lying #Grieving

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
-- Elizabeth I

#Teaching #Would Be #Tongue

Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be
-- Elizabeth I

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
-- Elizabeth I

#Art #Self #Expression

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
-- Elizabeth I

#Queens #Stones #Ends

... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.
-- Elizabeth I

#Time #Men #World

There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their husbands, so faithful liegemen should keep their regards at home and not look after foreign crowns. For my part I like not for my sheep to wear a stranger's mark nor to dance after a foreigner's whistle.
-- Elizabeth I

#Husband #Eye #Home

Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.
-- Elizabeth I

#Loss #Thanks #Good Service

I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
-- Elizabeth I

#Thank God #Quality

When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be; But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore, "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere! Importune me no more!
-- Elizabeth I

#Rejection #Mistress #Scorn

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
-- Elizabeth I

#Bored #Faults #Life Is

Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
-- Elizabeth I

#Thoughtful #Thinking #Morality

There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.
-- Elizabeth I

#Moving #World #Revolution

Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.
-- Elizabeth I

#Cheer #Good Cheer #Monarchy

Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.
-- Elizabeth I

#Marriage #Grace #Doubt

I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.
-- Elizabeth I

#Deception #Different #Stealing

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!
-- Elizabeth I

#Death #Dying #Monarchy

Have a care over my people. You have my people--do you that which I ought to do. They are my people.... See unto them--see unto them, for they are my charge.... I care not for myself; my life is not dear to me. My care is for my people. I pray God, whoever succeedeth me, be as careful of them as I am.
-- Elizabeth I

#People #Care #Praying

If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious difficulties; there is only one Jesus Christ and one faith, and all the rest is a dispute over trifles.
-- Elizabeth I

#Religious #Jesus #Jesus Christ

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.
-- Elizabeth I

#Regret #Slave #Unhappiness

If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.
-- Elizabeth I

#Integrity #Work #Done